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ftables, and covv-houfes, thefe fturdy favages feem to pride them- 
felves in braving the feverities of winter, and in living y^/^ dio the 
whole year round. Laft September was as wet a month as ever was 
known ; and yet during thofe deluges did a young gypfy-girl lie-in 
in the midft of one of our hop-gardens, on the cold ground, with 
nothing over her but a piece of a blanket extended on a few 
hazel-rods bent hoop fafhion, and ftuck into the earth at each end, 
in circumftances too trying for a cow in the fame condition : yet 
within this garden there was a large hop-kiln, into the chambers of 
which fhe might have retired, had Ihe thought flielter an objedl 
worthy her attention. 
Europe itfelf, it feems, cannot fet bounds to the rovings of thefe 
vagabonds ; for Mr. Belly in his return from Pekirtg, met a gang 
of thefe people on the confines of Tartary-f who were endeavouring 
to penetrate thofe deferts and try their fortune in China 
Gypfies are called in French, Bohemiens ; in Italian and modem 
'Greek, Zinganio 
I am. Sec. 
^ See Bell's Travels in China, 
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